The Best Films of EVERY Year

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People seem to be posting hundreds of “Best of X Year” lists, I’ll cover them all with one big one.
All titles are listed in the year they first played in public theaters (not including film festivals) in the U.S.
The Best Films of 2020 (so far)
1. The Grand Bizarre
2. A White, White Day
3. The Invisible Man
4. The Vast of Night
5. The Border Fence
6. The Wanting Mare
7. Bad Education
8. The Whistlers
9. Ema
10. Bacurau
The Best Films of 2019
1. Parasite
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. A Hidden Life
4. Marriage Story
5. Honeyland
6. Apollo 11
7. High Flying Bird
8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
9. The Irishman &…
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Forever under construction

People seem to be posting hundreds of “Best of X Year” lists, I’ll cover them all with one big one.

All titles are listed in the year they first played in public theaters (not including film festivals) in the U.S.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Syndromes and a Century
3. No End in Sight
4. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. The Lives of Others
7. No Country for Old Men
8. Black Snake Moan
9. Munyurangabo
10. Atonement

The Best Films of 2006

1. Children of Men
2. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
3. The Departed
4. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
5. Letters from Iwo Jima
6. Army of Shadows
7. A Scanner Darkly
8. Brick
9. United 93
10. L’Enfant

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Domestic Violence
3. Waking Life
4. Mulholland Drive
5. In the Bedroom
6. Werckmeister Harmonies
7. The Princess and the Warrior
8. The Royal Tenenbaums
9. What Time Is It There?
10. Memento

The Best Films of 2000

1. Songs from the Second Floor
2. High Fidelity
3. George Washington
4. Yi Yi: A One and a Two
5. Wonder Boys
6. Almost Famous
7. The Heart of the World
8. Traffic
9. You Can Count On Me
10. The Wind Will Carry Us

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Near Death
3. Drugstore Cowboy
4. sex, lies, and videotape
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors
6. Chameleon Street
7. Letters from a Dead Man
8. Born on the Fourth of July
9. Elephant
10. Roger & Me

The Best Films of 1988

1. The Decalogue
2. Talk Radio
3. Wings of Desire
4. Grave of The Fireflies
5. The Horse Thief
6. Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
7. The Last Temptation of Christ
8. Another Woman
9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. Salaam Bombay!

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Red and the White
3. The Hour of the Furnaces
4. High School
5. Wavelength
6. Memories of Underdevelopment
7. Faces
8. In the Year of the Pig & Ordinary Fascism (tie)
9. Shame
10. Once Upon a Time in the West

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. The Silence
4. I Am Cuba
5. An Autumn Afternoon
6. 21-87
7. A Hard Day’s Night
8. The Train & Fail-Safe (tie)
9. Diamonds of the Night
10. A Band of Outsiders

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Exterminating Angel
3. My Life to Live
4. Ivan’s Childhood
5. Through a Glass Darkly
6. Jules et Jim
7. Good Morning
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. The Bad Sleep Well
10. Long Day’s Journey Into Night

The Best Films of 1961

1. Last Year at Marienbad
2. Ashes and Diamonds
3. Yojimbo
4. Viridiana
5. Throne of Blood
6. The Hustler
7. Cleo from 5 to 7
8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
9. Two Women
10. Elevator to the Gallows

1. Diary of a Country Priest
2. Strangers on a Train
3. The River
4. Early Summer
5. The Browning Version
6. Miracle in Milan
7. The African Queen
8. Ace in the Hole
9. A Streetcar Named Desire
10. The Lavender Hill Mob

The Best Films of 1950

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Night and the City
3. Orpheus
4. Rashomon
5. In a Lonely Place
6. Stromboli
7. The Asphalt Jungle
8. Stars in My Crown
9. All About Eve
10. The Flowers of St. Francis

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Children of the Beehive
4. The Naked City
5. Quai des Orfevres
6. They Live By Night
7. Rope
8. Red River
9. Letter from an Unknown Woman
10. Key Largo

The Best Films of 1947

1. Out of the Past
2. Black Narcissus
3. Odd Man Out
4. Monsieur Verdoux
5. The Lady from Shanghai
6. The Ball at Anjo House
7. Brute Force
8. Brighton Rock
9. Record of A Tenement Gentleman
10. Body and Soul

The Best Films of 1946

1. Notorious
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. The Best Years of Our Lives
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. My Darling Clementine
6. The Big Sleep
7. Gilda & The Stranger (tie)
8. Paisan
9. Great Expectations
10. It’s a Wonderful Life

The Best Films of 1945

1. Children of Paradise
2. Rome, Open City
3. Brief Encounter
4. Ivan The Terrible, Part I
5. The Lost Weekend
6. A Walk in the Sun
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8. Detour
9. Leave Her to Heaven
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray

1. Day of Wrath
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. Ossessione
4. Le Corbeau
5. The Ox-Bow Incident
6. Shadow of A Doubt
7. I Walked with a Zombie…
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. The More the Merrier
10. Sahara

The Best Films of 1942

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Casablanca
3. Aniki Bobo
4. Cat People
5. This Gun for Hire
6. The 47 Ronin Part II
7. By Night with Torch and Spear
8. There Was a Father
9. The Palm Beach Story
10. The Glass Key

1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. His Girl Friday
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Bank Dick
5. The Thief of Baghdad
6. The Philadelphia Story
7. Foreign Correspondent
8. Christmas in July
9. The Shop Around the Corner
10. Fantasia

The Best Films of 1939

1. The Rules of the Game
2. Only Angels Have Wings
3. Daybreak
4. The Story of Late Chrysanthemums
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
6. Earth (Tsuchi)
7. Stagecoach
8. Ninotchka
9. Of Mice and Men
10. Goodbye, Mr. Chips